Example sentences of "[vb -s] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was necessary in case there were different adherent bacteria on the mucosal surface in disease and controls , and for these experiments faecal fluid was aspirated at colonoscopy and added in 100 µl aliquots to a specimen in the culture system . |
| 2 | It makes you a lot more confident , ’ she adds to an accompaniment of vigorous nods and affirmative uh-huhs . |
| 3 | In London , where orders for transfer are made by district judges of the Principal Registry , appeal lies to a judge of the Family Division . |
| 4 | An appeal from a decision of a district judge in the county lies to a judge in the same court . |
| 5 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 6 | whether it 's nineteen ninety , ninety five which is relatively small , it widens to a potential sixteen point five million , fourteen point five million minimum , in ninety five , ninety six and to twenty seven point two million in ninety six , ninety seven . |
| 7 | The one thing that I do want to talk about here , however , in some detail because it 's important , is how Freud thinks that this matters to an analysis of modern feelings and attitude to incest . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 9 | Thins to a dew and steams off — |
| 10 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 11 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
| 12 | Originally published by Poetry Wales in 1982 , this updated edition of critical writings on R S Thomas not only explores the evolving approaches Thomas has to a variety of , by now , well- established themes , but also contains an extended bibliography of source material , invaluable to any student or reader of Thomas 's work . |
| 13 | This leaves the US as the nearest thing the world has to a globocop , the only major power able to project its military forces on a global scale . |
| 14 | Listen , Rober' , if there is anything we can do — I think we are now the nearest thing your friend Nader has to a family here in Paris . ’ |
| 15 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 16 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 17 | Its massive cyclopean ring of masonry still stands to a height of 3 metres . |
| 18 | The guitars stagger all over the place , the singer hacks his throat raw and the song stutters to a halt in a welter of feedback . |
| 19 | For example Shaw ( 1980 ) reports that the minimum efficient scale of an ammonium nitrate plant is about 300,000–450,000 tonnes per annum , which approximates to a quarter of total UK consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers . |
| 20 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 21 | A bilateral treaty ( or one with a limited number of parties ) creating mutual rights and duties in personam most approximates to a contract ; it is here that the identity of treaty partners is most significant . |
| 22 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 23 | He then drives home and writes to a climbing magazine detailing his new routes . |
| 24 | They are strengthened by the return of Matt Kerr and Phil Houlton and will hope to carry on the momentum of one of their best starts to a season for years . |
| 25 | A belligerent bat and adhesive catcher , Taylor certainly enjoyed one of the more auspicious starts to a county career , taking a century off the Sri Lankans on debut in 1979 then claiming four Gold Awards in his first five Benson & Hedges Cup ties . |
| 26 | PROPERTY LOOKS TO A REVIVAL |
| 27 | The democrat looks to a parliament to ensure that the executive is kept under scrutiny and prevented from abusing its powers . |
| 28 | As the coats separate to take a flight of stairs each , there 's a screech of tyres round the corner and a big old-style Granada lurches to a halt behind them . |
| 29 | Assuming that the measuring device itself is reliable , if a single measurement corresponds to a variation in the measurement of the reference card then this fact is flagged on the output . |
| 30 | Locus M corresponds to a circuit that exhibits real positive feedback at a frequency represented by the point Q but , as the length of OQ is less than unity , oscillation can not occur . |